[Interview] Upcoming Voynich program at the Getty

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Just finished watching the webinar with Dr Lisa Fagin Davis. My understanding of her position on the Voynich manuscript is as follows:

• it is an authentic medieval document (not a modern hoax or fake)
  
• it shows evidence of continuous use and reference, by a person or persons who presumably understood the content
  
• it is written on vellum from the early 1400s
  
• the illustrations are firmly within the tradition of Western European medieval manuscripts (not, for example, Middle Eastern, not Oriental, not Meso-American)
  
• the text has the structure and the statistical properties of a natural human language with an alphabet
  
• the underlying language is unknown
  
• there were five scribes
  
• all claims of a "solution" (in the sense of identifying the meaning of the text) are unfounded.